Testing Grounds: performances by Sian Robinson Davies, David Berridge, Phillip Henderson and Joan Casellas / 18 July, 2009 / Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK

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TESTING GROUNDS
Live Art & Music event
Saturday 18 July, 2009
7pm
Permanent Gallery
Bedford Place
Brighton, United Kingdom

“The fate of thought depends and will depend for a long time between regret and assay“.
Jean-Francois Lyotard, What is post-modernism?, 1982

Testing Grounds is a Live Art and Music event where artists are invited to make new work, rather than reproducing a set performance. Testing Grounds is an experimental meeting place for artists, audiences and ideas and aims to be an environment supportive of artistic risk.

For this edition, we invited 4 artists from the UK and abroad proposing to explore the dislocation between text and image, focusing on structural fragmentation.

Sian Robinson Davies (Nottingham) creates subtle and humorous constructions of different narratives which translate formal spatial arrangements into language.

David Berridge (London) will adapt texts from Kafka’s notebooks into musical and visual choral pieces.

In his improvised music piece, Phillip Henderson (Nottingham/Farnham) will question “vertical temporality” with an electric harmonium, metal detector and improvised arhythm on drum kit.

Also showcased is a new performance by Catalan artist Joan Casellas (Barcelona). Joan Casellas has been performing extensively worldwide since the 1990s as an outstanding representative of the Spanish parallel art scene. This will be Casellas’ first UK appearance since 1994, when The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, organised an exhibition documenting his performances and interventions.

The event promises to be a stimulating and playful selection of works for the imagination.

The Ladies of the Press will be making a live documentation of the performances throughout the event, producing and publishing a leaflet that will be available to the audience.

This event is organized in partnership with the Permanent Gallery in Brighton, and is the first edition in a series of 6 events to be produced in the South East of England until March 2010.

Testing Grounds is financially assisted by the Arts Council England South East. This event also benefit from the support of Jane Quinn, who is kindly sponsoring Joan Casellas performance.

Image: Sian Robinson Davies, photo Simon Stephen.


More info:
http://www.testinggrounds.org.uk
http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddmr3kf5_0hf7kkhcq
http://www.permanentgallery.com/?p=210


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